Self-Discovery as an Aromantic Writer

Every queer person has a different path to discovering or understanding their IDs, and many of these are shaped by who we are as a person. It’s not a surprise, then, how much writing has played a part into my identifying as aromantic.

It started with Claude, and it wasn’t conscious. As I’ve said yesterday, there was a fair amount of time during which I suspected I was aromantic but didn’t want to explore it, and had rather conflicting feelings about it (most of them rooted in internalized ant...